Electrical cash-controlling apparatus.



A. GODEFROID.

ELECTRICAL CASH CCNTRCLLINC APPARATUS.

APPLIGATION FILED OOT.10, 191.1.

Patented July 29, 1913.

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A. GODEFROID.

ELECTRICAL CASH CONTROLLING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 001210, 1911.-

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A. GODEFROID.

ELECTRICAL CASH GONTROLLING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 00110, 1911.

1,068,760. Patented July 29, 1913.

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A. GODEPROID. ELECTRICAL CASH CONTROLLING APPARATUS.

. 'APFLICATICN FILED 0CT.10. 1911. 1,068,760. Patented July 29, 1913.

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A. GODBFROID. ELEGTRIGAL CASH GONTROLLING APPARATUS.

APPLIOATION FILED ooT.1o. 1911.

1,068,760. l Patented July 29, 1913.

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ELECTRICAL CASH-CONTROLLING- APPARATUS.

v Application led October 10, 1911.

To all whom t may concern Be it'known that I, ARMAND GODEFROID, acitizen of the Empire of Germany, residing at Berlin, in the Empire ofGermany, have invented a new and useful Electrical Cash- ControllingApparatus, of which .the following is a s eciication.

My invention relates to improvements in electrical cash controllingapparatus comprising a cash transportin band, a cash receipting deviceand a cas registering device; and the objects of my improvement are,first, to provide a single operating device adapted to occupy threedifferent positions, so that it can couple the receipting device and theregistering device together in the middle position and either of them ineither extreme position with the electrometor, and, second, to provide arocking counting board for receiving the cash and means operated fromthe mechanism for turning upward the counting board, so as to drop thecash onthe cash'l transport-ing band. The operating device comprises twohandlevers, which may be operated simultaneously or separately forproducing certain effects to be hereinafter described.

Other, improvements will be hereinafter set forth and pointed out in theclaims.

I will now proceed to describe my invention with reference to theaccompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of theentire ap aratus, Fig. 2 is a perspective rear view' o the same on areduced scale, Fig. 3 is a plan view of the entire apparatus, the coverbeing removed and parts being broken away, Fig. 4 is a vertical sectionon an enlarged scale through the line C-D in Fig. 3, seen in thedirection of the arrows, and shows in a side view the electromotor, thedriving gear and the operating device, Fig. 5 is a plan view yof thesame, parts being shown in section, Fig. 6 is a vertical section onan'enlarged scale through the line A-"B in Fig. 3, seen in the directionof the arrows, ands'hows the mechanism for rocking the counting board,also feeding a Writing device and a counter, a partI of the frame beingbroken away, Fig.- 7 1s a plan view of the same, Fig. 8 is a side v-iewof the cash transporting band and a vertical section through a part ofthe'drawer, Fig. 9 is a.

rear view of the operating device, Fig. 10 is a side view of the same,and Fig. 411 1s a Specieation of Letters Patent.

Patented July 29, 1913.

Serial No. 653,923.

vertical section similar to Fig. 4, from which the electromotor isomitted. Fig. 12 is a side view of the cash receip-ting and registeringydevices (71, 72, 73) and Fig. 13 is a plan view of the printing rolland its operative connections, the cover and the number wheel of theregistering device being removed and `arts being broken away.

Similar c aracters of reference referto similar parts throughout theseveral views.

Within the casing 1 is disposed an electromotor 3, in the circuit ofwhich is in* serted a spring-contact 4 having a contact spring aboverovided with a thumb 5'of ebonite, saponite, or the like, on Which alever 7 rests, that loosely turns on a pin 8v and is supported by anadjustable spring 6. The contact parts 4 are fastened to a wooden block9, the contact spring being separated from the other part by anintermediate piece 10 of insulating material. The closing'of thespring-contact 4 can be effected in two manners. Either it is effectedby means of a key 11 the rod 12 of which is pivotally connected with anarm 13 on a shaft 14 carrying at the other end a second arm 15, whosefree end bears from above against the free end of the lever 7. The shaft14 is mounted to rock in bearings on a frame 16 in the casing, so thaton depressing the key 11 the two arms turn downward and the contactspring is pressed on the lower part 4. The free end of the lever 7 ismade to j by screws 24, 24 engaging in its slots 25, 25,

so that the plate 23 can slide to and fro on the plate 21. The plate 23is at its two lower corners provided with arms 26, 26, the frceends ofwhich engage in grooves 27, 27 of clutch members 28, 28 for a purpose tobe mentioned later on. 0n thc plate 21 is furthor disposed a pin 31, onwhich tw'o handlcvers 29, 3() are mounted to rock in such a manner, thatthe smaller lever 29 can engage in the space of the larger, forked lever30 and can move through this space. The smaller hand-lever 29 is widenedat its lower end so as to form two oppositecams 32, 32 and is providedwithy a recess 32 diverging downward, in which the small roller 2O ofthe rod 19 normally engages. The fo-rked hand-lever 30 carries a roller33, which during the motion of the'lever can strike eit-her of two pins34, 34, whereby the plate 23 is shifted on the yplate 21. On one side ofthe guide 17 a bent lever 35 with arms of different size lis mounted torock and serves as a lock. The longer` arm of this lever engages in thepath 4of a.' pin 36 (Fig. 5), which 1s disposed on one ofthe drivingdisks of the main shaft and serves a purpose to be mentioned later on.The shorter arm of the lever 35 is at its upper free end cut out,whereby a sort of nose is formed. In the half of the movable plate 23corresponding to the bent lever 35 several tooth spaces 37 arey providedat they lower edge, while the stationary plate 21 is provided with arecess 38 corres onding to these tooth spaces. The upper end of theshort arm of the lever 35 is adapted to engage in any tooth s ace 37 andthus to revent the plate 23 om shifting on the plJate 21.

The driving of the main shaft 42 is effeeted from the motor shaft bymeans of'a worm 39 anda worm wheel 40, which is loose on the main shaft42. The worm wheel 40 is on one side protectedfrom shifting by a loosecollar 41 with a set-screw and forms on the other side one member of afriction clutch, the other member 43-of which is fastened upon the mainshaft 42. On both sides of the worm Wheelv and the friction clutch ythesaid two clutch'members 28, 28 are disposed onv the main shaft 42 andare in any known manner prevented from turning thereon.- As alreadymentioned, the arms 26 of the p1ate23 engage in the grooves 27, 27 ofthese two clutch members. The latter carry ,pins 44, 44, which canengage in holes of the other clutch members 45, 45 that are loose onboth ends of the main shaft 42 while being prevented from longitudinalmotion and are made in one with pinions 46 and 47 respectively. Thepinion 47 on one end of the main shaft meshes with a gear wheel (notshown) of the cash receipting device to be mentioned later on. Thepinion 46 on the other end of the main shaft mesheswith a gearwheel 48fastened on the shaft 49a of the driving roll 49 for the cashtransporting band 50 (Fig. 8). Theratio of the pinion 46 and the gearWheel 48 is so selected, that during every complete revolution of themain shaft 42 the shaft 49a makes but one quarter of a revolution. Thetwo rolls 49, 52 of the endless band 50 are mounted to turn in a frame51 and have each in the middle a neck ,53, in whichlteeth 54 areprovided, that are adaptedto engage in corresponding holes 55 f a strip57 of leather or the like fastened to the inside of the transport band50. The .late

ter is on the outside provided with several cross bars covered withsuitable material, whereby the transport band is divided into sections.Above the driving roll 49 is disposed the device for dropping the coins.This device consists of a counting board 60, which is corrugated in thedropping direction and is mounted to rock with its shaft 59 (Fig. 6) inthe frame 51. Its front edge is adapted to normally engage closelybeneath the corresponding edge of a glass plate '82 covering thetransport band 50. At the rea-r edge on the right in Fig. 3 the countingboard 60 is pivotally connected with a lever 61, which is cranked, so asto engage through the frame 51 to without and to be parallel with theframe wall. This outer part of the ylever 61 is forked and the fork 62is guided by the s haft 498L (Fig. 7) of the roll 49 engaging 1n itsslot. Close to the fork 62 a cam disk 63 (Figs. 6 and h7) having fourcams is fastened on the shaft 49a and a roller 64 mounted on the forkedlever 61, 62 is made to normally engage in any space of this cam disk63, whereby the counting board 60 is held in its normal position shownin full lines in Fig. 6. y At the right end of the shaft 49a in Fig. 7is fastened a star wheel 65 having semicircular recesses in its fourspaces. Into. any of these recesses a roller 66 is made to normallyengage (which roller is disposed on the free end of the rear arm of atwo-armed lever 67 mounted to rock at the frame of the writing orregistering device of any known construction. The free end of the frontarm of the lever 67 carries a pawl 68, which engages in the too-thspaces of a ratchet wheel 69 for feeding the paper 'strip of the aboveregistering device, the paper strip passing from a'roll 78 over thetable 79 under the opening 74 in Fig. 1 to another roll 80. The rear armof the lever 67 is pivotally connected by a rod 70 with a crank 81a on acrankshaft 81 (Fig. 7) of a known automatic registering device 75.

The disposition of the several registering devices can be clearly seenfrom Fig. 1, the cash receipting and registering device being on theleft and the cash registering device on the right. The receipt forms areinserted one after the other in lan upper opening 71, pass between therolls of a printing and registering device of any known constructionsituated under the plate 72 and moved at every rotation by the pinion 47while being printed and registered, and issue from the lower opening 73.The amountpaid in is y written through an opening 74 in the cover on thepaper strip mentioned above, after which this paper strip is fed onetooth forward beneath a glass plate 82 and atvthe same time the paymenteffected is automatically registered by the device 75 which is moved' atevery rotation by the star wheel 65 fastened'on the shaft49, thetwolevers 67 and 70, the ycrank 81, the crank shaft 81 and a ratchet deviceof any known type arranged at the outer end of the shaft 81.

The pinion 47 meshes with a gear-wheel 83 fastened 'o'n the shaft of theprinting roll 84 which co-acts with a counter-roll 85 and prints 'thedates and the words Payment received l onto the receipt forms. Betweenthe gear-wheel 83 and the printing roll 84 a cam '86, is fastened on theshaft of the printing roll 84. rThis cam co-ac'ts with a lever 87adapted tovbe rocked once only for every complete revolution of the.printing roll '84.

'The free end of the 'lever 87 is provided with 'a slo't in which thepin of a springeheld lever 88 engages. This lever 88 is fixed on a shortshaft V88* having a spring-held pawl 89 'which en agesy in a ratchetwheel 90 pro vided 'wit cash-'keeper or it may be kept: closed, as may'be preferred.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: When any'amount is to bepaid in and at Ithe same timea 'receipt is to be given out,

Y then the coins are'placedon the corrugated counting board 60, theamount is written down on the paper strip through'the open ing 74, andthe two levers 29 and 30 are moved into their middle position, so thatthe rod 19 (Figs. 9 and 10) does not depress the lever 7.Y Thereuponthe'key 11 is depressed, so that by means of the lever 7 the upper partofthe spring contact 4 is pressed on the lower `lpart for closing thecircuit of the electromotor 3 and consequently the motor is started. Forthe named middle position'of the two hand-levers'29, 30 themovable-clutch members 28, 28 occupy such a position, that their pins44, 44 simultaneously engage in the holes of the two other clutchmembers 45, 4.5, so that the motor 3 by means of the main shaft 42simultaneously turns the twopinions 46 and 47. In consequence of this'the pinion 47 on the lower end of the lmain shaft 42 in Fig. 5 willdrive the cash receipting device, [While the other pinion 46 ,on theupper end of the main shaft 42 in Fig. 5 will by` means of the gearWheel 48 drive the shaft 49a for moving the coin ten teeth and fixed onthe shaft' of the `first number disk of the counting device 72. By meansof thelevers 87, 88 and of 3 lthe pawl 89 the ratchet wheel makes butone tenth of a revolution during every complete i revolution of theprinting roll 84. In this- -manner the 'number of times that a receipt:

transporting band 50. The cam disk 63 fastened on this shaft 49EL willturn through an angle of 90o for first turning by means of the lever 61the counting board 60 upward into the position indicated by dotted linesin Fig. 6 and thus dropping the coins during the first part of the turn,then returning the counting board into its initial position. As alreadymentioned above, the cam disk 63 makes but one quarter of a revolut-ionon every complete revolution of the main shaft 42. Simultaneously withthe rocking motion of the counting board 60 and the feed of the cointransporting band 50 also the registering device 75 is operated from thestar wheel 65 on vthe shaft 49'd1 for registering the payment. Duringthe turn o-f this star wheel 65 throughan angle of 90O the llever 67 is'rocked for feeding by means 'of the pawl 68 the paper strip forward andthus moving the last writingon it beneath the glass plate 82 and at thesame time by means of the rod 70 and the crank 81a the automaticregistering device is fed one figure forward.

By depressing the key 11 the armature of the electromotor is set torotate rapidly, but this great speed is for the main shaft 42 reduced bythe worm gearing 39, 40. Obviously after the encashment and feed of thecoin transporting bandI and of the registering devices the whole,mechanism will require to be stopped. For this purpose the vfollowingarrangement is made: The friction clutchgfmember 43 disposed above thelever 7 is provided with a notch 78 (Fig. 11) in which a `pin 79provi-fV :d on the lever 7 can engage. From an examination of Fig. 11 itwill beA evident, that on depressing the key 11 the pin 79 will withdrawfromthe' notch 78 of the member 45 and thus permit the armature of theelectromotor to rotate.' During the revolution of the main shaft 42 thecircumference of the member 443 will press on the pin 79 and thuskeepthe spring contact 4 closed, until under the action of the spring 6 thepin 79 engages in the notch 73 and" strikes its radial face, whereby thefriction member 43 is stopped and therewith also the whole mechanism. Asthe spring contact 4 is opened, no current passes through theelectromotor 3, so. that its armature is easily andsoon stopped, thewo-rm wheel 40 turning on the main shaft 42 and being braked -by thefriction clutch 40, 43.

When only the cash receipting device is to be actuated, after thepayment, the two hand-levers 29, 30 are both .turned from their middleposition to theleft in Fig. 3,- that is to the right eXtremepSitionindicated by dotted lines ink Fig. 9, so that the roller 33 on thehanddever 30 strikin the right pin 34 inv/Fig. 9 will thereby shi t theplate 23 to `the left inrr Fig. 3. VThe consequence of this is, that bythe two arms 26, 26 of the plate 23 the two clutch members 28, 28 willbe equally shifted to the left in Fig. 3, so that the pins 44 of theright clutch member 28 in Fig. 3 withdraw from the holes of thecorresponding other member 45, while the pins 44 of the left clutchmember 28 engage more deeply into the holes of the corresponding othermember made in one with the pinion 47. Of course the pins 44, 44 requireto have such a length, that for the middle position of the plate 23 thepins 44, 44 of the two clutch members 28, 28 still engage in the holesof the corresponding other members 45, 45, while in either position ofthe plate 23 one clutch 28, 45 remains engaged, and the other clutch isdisengaged. Evidently by shifting the plate 23 to the left in Fig. 3 anddiscngaging the right clutch 28, 45 also the spring-pressed lever 7 willbe depressed by the lower cam of the hand-lever 29 depressing theroller.

2O and therewith the spring-pressed rod 19, whereby the circuit of theelectromotor 3 is closed. Then the cash receipting device on the leftalone will be actuated lin the mannerv as described above, while thecoin transporting band and the cash registering device on the rightremain stopped. On releasing the small hand-lever 29 the rod 19 willunder. the action of the spring 18 recoil upward and return thehand-lever`29 to its middle position by reason of the special shape ofthe two cams 32 on the lever 29. In consequence of this thespring-pressed lever 7 'will be released by the rod '19, so that thespring-contact 4 will be opened on the pin 79 engaging in the notch 78of the friction member 43 after the completion of o-ne revolution o-fthe main shaft 42. When, on thecontrary, it is desired to register onlythe encashment without giving out any receipt,'then the two hand-levers29, 30 are turned to theright in Fig. 3 (to the left in Fig. 9), so thatthe left clutch 28, 45 is disengaged and the right one alone is engaged.In this case the plate 23 will be shifted to the right by the roller 33on the hand-lever 30 striking thel other pin 34 (on the left in Fig. 9),so that by the two arms 26, 26 the twoV clutch members 28, 28 areshifted to the right for producing the effect mentioned. At the sametime the hand-lever 29 will by its other cam 32 have depressed the rodl19 by means of the roller 20 and thus closed the circuit of theelectromotor 3, so

' that the counting board 60, the coin transporting band 50, therecording and registering devices on the right' alone will be actuatedin the manner described above, while the devices on the left remainstopped.

It is obvious, that the single operations, that is thereceipting aloneon the one hand and the encashment and registering alone von the .otherhand can be repeated several times without simultaneously adjusting thetwo hand-levers 29, 30.` It is only necessary to turn the largehand-lever 30 into the respective extreme position and to leave the\s1nall hand-lever 29 in its normal, z'. e. middle position, whereuponby depressing the key 1l the electromotor is started for driving therespective devices.

In order to prevent any disengagement of the respective clutch and anystoppage of the motion before the main shaft 42 has co-mpleted itsrevolution, the-said lock 35 is provided on the guide 17 on the plate21. During the standstill of the machine the long" arm of the lever 35bears on the stop 36(0n the friction clutch member 43 in a positionindicated by dotted lines in Fig. 10, so that its short arm is kept outof reach of the edge of the plate 23 which latter therefore canbeshifted at pleasure. When the main shaft 42 commences its revolution thestop 36 on the member 43 will release the long arm of the lever 35,which therefore drops, so that its short arm engages in the opposite`toot-h space of the plate 23 and consequently the latter is preventedfrom moving, until the can be varied in many respects without departingfrom the spirit of my invention.

1 claim:

1. In a. cash controlling apparatus, Lthe combination with anelectromotor, of a main shaft adapted to be driven from saidelectromotor, a `cut-out, a circuit including said electromotor and saidcut-out, a cash receipting device, a cash registeringdevice, a singleoperating device adapted to move from oneeXtreme position to another eX-treme position adapted to operate said cutout and to simultaneouslycouple said main shaft with said receipting device in one eX- tremeposition and with said registering device in the other extreme positionand with both of these devices in the middle position, means forpermitting said main shaft to complete one revolution only, and meansfor circuit including said electromotor and said cut-out, a cashreceipting device, a cash registering device, two pinions loose on saidmain shaft and adapted to drive separat-ely said reeeipting devlce andsaid registering device, two clutches longitudinally movable on saidmain shaft, a shifter guided in said frame and adapted to simultaneouslyoperate said two clutches, said two clutches being adapted to engagesaid two pinions simulsaid lever, a pin on said frame, ahand-leverrocking on said pin and adapted to shift said' shifter, and asecond hand-lever rocking on said pin and adapted to depress said rod ineither eXtreme position.

3. In a cash controlling apparatus, the combination with a frame, of amain shaft in said frame, means for driving said main shaft, a cashreceipting device, a cash registering device, two pinions loose! on saidmain shaft and adapted to drive separately said receipting device andsaid registering device, two clutches longitudinally movable on saidmain shaft, a shifter guided in said frame andadapted to simultaneouslyoperate said two clutches, said two clutches being adapted to engage,said two pinions si.- multaneously for the middle position of saidshifter and one of them only for -either eX- treme position, a circuitincluding a cut-out, allever adapted to close said cut-out, akeyoperated mechanism adapted to depress said lever, a rod,longitudinally guided in said frame and adapted to depress said lever,a

pin on said frame, a hand-lever rocking on l said pin and adapted toVshift said shifter, and a second hand-lever rocking on said pin andadapted to depress said rod in either eXtreme position.

4. In a cash controlling apparatus, the combination with anelectromotor, of a frame, a main shaft in said frame, a worm wheel looseon said main shaft, a worm on the armature shaft of said electromotoradapted to mesh with said worm wheel, a friction clutch of which oneymember is connected with said worm wheel and the other member with saidmain shaft andphas in its circumference a notch and on one4 side a pin,i

a cutout, a circuit including said electromo-torv and said cut-out, acash receipting device, a cash registering device, two pinions loose onsaid main shaft and adapted to drive separately said receipting deviceand said registering device, two clutches longitudinally movable on saidmain shaft, a shifter guided in said frame and adapted to simultaneouslyoperate said two clutches,

said two clutches being adapted to engage said two pinionssimultaneously for the middleposition of said shifter and one of themonly for either extreme position, a lever adapted to close said cut-.outand having a stop adapted to be depressed by the circumference of theother member of said friction clutch and to engage in its not-ch, l

lever, a pin on said frame, a hand-lever rocking on said pin and adaptedto shift said shifter, a second hand-lever rocking on said pin andadapted to depress said rod in either extreme position, said shifterhaving tooth spaces, and a lock rocking on said frame and adapted to benormally held in one position by the pin of the other member of saidfriction clutch and on being released to engage in any tooth space ofsaid shifter for locking the latter. WE

5. In a cash controlling apparatus, the combination with a frame, of acash transporting band, a shaft in said frame adapted to drive said cashtransporting band, a cam Q1disk on said shaft having several cams andspaces, a counting board mounted in said ARMAND GODEFROID.

Witnesses HENRY HASPER,

WOLDEMAR HAUPT.

